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TIL: An FBI file says (pg.34) a "clairvoyant" (name redacted) claimed the space shuttle Challenger explosion was the work of NASA-employed "local conspirators" in security whose addresses she gave. Checks found "none of the current security employees, or recent dismissals" lived in the general area.

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LQpgp TIL that IPCC report was reviewed and edited by oil company representatives.
x6adg TIL that Shonda Rhimes accidentally invented the term 'vajayjay' on Grey’s Anatomy to get around limits on network TV as to how often characters could use the word “vagina.”
nEO9 TIL that 69% of Luxembourgers and 53% of Belgians speak “at least” four languages
6PLm TIL that Ferrucio Lamborghini originally was a tractor maker. When Ferrari refused to replace a broken clutch in one of the Ferraris that he owned because he was “Just a tractor maker, and didn’t know anything about cars” he decided to start his own company. Thus the Lamborghini sports car was born.
Z8xx4 Space is not empty, nor is it silent. While technically a vacuum, space nonetheless contains energetic charged particles, governed by magnetic and electric fields, and it behaves, unlike anything we experience on Earth. In regions laced with magnetic fields, such as the space environment surrounding our planet, particles are continually tossed to and fro by the motion of various electromagnetic waves known as plasma waves. These plasma waves, like the roaring ocean surf, create a rhythmic cacophony that — with the right tools — we can hear across space.